THE INVESTIGATION OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SMART PHONE ADDICTION AND PERCEIVED STRESS AND LIFE SATISFACTION


The purpose of the present study is to investigate the relationship between the levels of smart phone addiction and perceived stress and life satisfaction levels. In this study, the research is of the type of scanning because it is tried to determine the relationship between the level of smart phone addiction of students studying at university and perceived stress and life satisfaction levels. The population of the study consists of the students studying at Malatya İnönü University in the academic year 2018-2019. The sample include 329 students. In order to collect the data of the research; personal information form, Smart Phone Addiction Scale-Short Form, Life Satisfaction Scale and Perceived Stress Scale have been utilized. According to the results obtained in the research; students use their smartphones to follow and messaging social media more. 17.6% of the students perceive themselves as smart phone addicts, 41.6% of them are not smart phone addicts, 40.7% of them do not know to which group they belong. A weak negative correlation has found out between the levels of smart phone addiction and life satisfaction levels of the students, and a weak positive relationship between the levels of smart phone addiction and perceived stress levels.


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smart phone addiction, stress, perceived stress, life satisfaction

Author : Battal GÖLDAĞ
Number of pages: 193-212
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.29228/TurkishStudies.22753
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Turkish Studies-Information Technologies and Applied Sciences
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